Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 23 November 1894 — Page 4

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She democrat jr. BLACKBURN. Proprietor. I RID AY. NOV. 23, 1894. B»t«» of Subscription. One Year, in advance U BQ Bta Months ™ Four Montns... ** All subscriptions not* paid during the year will be charged at the rate of 12.00. Office in Democrat Building, east sldeof Seo ond Street— ground floor At the coming meeting of the farmers of this county the road question should be the theme that should engage their most careful • attention. With good roads Adams county will be the best county in the State for agricultural purposes, as is shown by the crops of the last three years, which show more corn, 1 wheat, oats and grass ‘than any other county in the State, taking the same number of acres. While ( the m ijority of our farmers have ■ their land improved equal to any in f the state; while a better grade of stock is being brought forth, so that some of the finest horses, cat- 1 tie and hogs that are raised in the 1 State can be found in this county, 1 a number of which are shipped to 1 different counties. While the de-; raand is becoming greaser every ! day, and the prices for good stock is such that it always is a source of ] revenue that no one can afford to ] pass by, and with good pikes we ; can lead any county in this State, 1 so let every on come prepared to ( say something about the road ques- , tion during the meeting, give your ; idea of the best manner of making the necessary improvement, and while assembled decide on the road and the work. Let those who have the same under way give an idea what it would cost in the way they construct the roads they are at work making, giving a detailed statement of cost when built by the co-operation of the tarfflers and the cost when let out by contract. On Thanksgiving everybody will eat turkey if they do not roost too high. State Geologist Blatchly took his office Nov. 20th. More will soon follow. Eggs are 20c a dozen. The tariff is off, but what is it, the supply or demand, or the tariff that makes the price? The income tax is commanding new attention. The new attention is an after thought, a tax on superfluous capital is eternally just. It is currently reported that our City Council are after the scalp of Street Commissioner Archbold. As an officer he stands fair, but maybe not fair enough for them. The gerrymander must go.— Evansville Journal. Do you refer to the one the Republican bosses are formulating to be indorsed by the next legislature?

The Chicago Inter Ocean is hilariously and hysterically indisposed toward the Tribune. It thinks Prodigal' Medill is not entitled to the fatted protection call. The Chicago Tribune which believes in tariff for revenue only demands that the President in his next message shall correct the blunder of the McKinley law. This is progress. The calamity howlers have now shut down and are admitting that times are improving, that business is better than it has been for a of years, despite the cry of hard times that was set up before the election by the combine trust, and their friends, the monopolists. The redAtion in tariff is felt every place where goods are handled.

The Democratic Congress should first pass a sound currency law, to place iron and sugar on the tree list, and place the business of the country on a firm, honest basis by taking it out of the hands of the, rulers. If the coming Congress will give its attention to the currency question, and give to the people as good a currency law as the last session did a tariff law, the farmer" and laborer will rise up and call them blessed. L_ - l| ■!—— t Tse dear, dear people voted at the last election for higher prices on sugar, and the trusts are going to give it to them, and also to all the rest of mankind, they are looking forward to the sugar bounty promised them. Owens was elected in the Breckinridge, Kentucky, district by a ma jonty of something over 100. His Republican opponent gave notice of contest. Congress being largely Republican, Owens will be ousted as soon as his case can be reached. Statistics at this time show that more wheels are turning at this time and more factories running now than at any one time for the last thirty years. The greater number of which have been brought about by the reduction of the tariff. When a Republican stronghold like Cincinnati gives a Democratic majority of 3,300 just one week to a day after the Republican tidal wave, it is a sure sign the storm is over, the waters receding and the reason of the people resuming its sway. .• " - Tom Reed is the the biggest man in the Republican party. He will be the next speaker of the House of Representatives and probably the next Republican candidate for President. If he is he will follow Blaine if the Democrats nominate a good western man. The probable total vote of the Populists in Indina is 30,566. They showed their greatest strength in Marion county where they cast 1,424 votes. The Prohibitionists received 512 votes in that county. The total Prohibition vote in the State is Probable 12,000. J. H. Smith, of the Muncie Bending company, said that last week’s pay-roll of the Indiana Iron works was the largest fn the history of the company. The pay-roll amounted to over $12,000. And yet the Republican calamity howler claims no business is being done jn this country. The Republican plurality on joint ballot in Indiana Legislature is 72. They have 30 in the Senate and 'Bl in the House. Only 19 Democratic members of the House will cut a sorry figure as against 81 Republicans. But we couldn’t help it. We would if we could, but if we couldn’t, how could we? Could * you? • > J

The citizens of Marion are asking the Council to pass an ordinance making it a penal offense for to ad - vertise by pasting bills, boards or letters on any of the within the city limits. They have plenty of room between the little bunches of houses to place bills, is the reason they do not want the bridges defaced. The receiver of the late Order of the Iron Hall the biggest fake this country has ever had, unless it is the court that made the allowance to such receiter and officers connected The receiver has just received fifty thousand dollars as a part of his fees in the case. The Legislature could give the people a statute on that subjedt that would be a living monument to them. s®*. i'. '

AFTER DEMOCRATIC BCAL P S. “To be or not to be;” that is the question which is now bothering the minds of the Republican powers which will wield the next Legists ture. It is no secret that the Leg islature will be nothing but a cat’s paw, to do the bidding of the ring stereos the Republican party, 1 who ! have mapped out their ultimate ( desires and will take active steps } at once to lay the foundation for } the ultimate accomplishments of these ends. } But it is no less an open secret ’ that there is not harmony in the secret conclaves of the newly tri ’ umphant party leaders. Mr. Ketcb- • am has been elected Attorney-Gen I eral and proposes to have something > to say in the arrangement of things. I On the other hand there are the candidates for the governorship and the aspirants for the position of Senator Voorhees. With a taste of victory these persons are clamoring for everything and want to lay the lines for assured success indefinitely in the future. This has brought into prominence the advisability of making a reapportionment of the state, both as to Congressional and Legislative districts, and here is where the division in the ranks Os the leaders stands out m bo.d relief. There are those, and they are many, who will hear of nothing else but an immediate gerrymander, which shall be arranged in such away as to leave the Democrats so bunched together that it *will be next to a . political impossibility for them to gam future control of the State Legislature or a majority of the congressional delegation unless they have 50,000 majority. They argue that they have won, they have the power to do it, and therefore the only thing left to do is to do it and to do it at once. The rights of the people are not to be considered for a moment. What they demand is an uncompromising gerrymander. Needless to say these are the Senatorial candidates and their friends. But there is a conservative ele- * ment which will oppose this end. So determined are both sides that a pretty fight is to be expected. Everything is being done and every argument brought to bear to induce this conservative element to agree to a strict gerrymander; but so far it has been unavailing. Offers of a goodly share of the patronage are being held out as an inducement; political pride is being hurled at them, and the dangers of defeat two years hence held before their eyes. , And still they retuse to be convinced. They realize that the people of Indiana know what is right and what is wrong and they will resent such an outrage as the radical office hunters advise. They fear the resentment of the people which will follow as a natural con> sequence and decline to be a party to any scheme of the kind. Which will prevail remains to be seen. ■ '..-r—■- '■ - -■ , By the time the people experience two years of trust-combine rule, they will regret that they did not give the Democracy two more years to get the country back upon a prosperous basis. -‘Haste makes waste” is an old saying, and their' . hasty action in removing the DeI mocracy from power will prove no exception to the rule.

The Detroit Free Press shows that in Michigan, were seemingly there are nd Democrats left, the result is due to their failure to vote. In Grand Rapids for instance,\the Republicans lost 403 votes and the Democrats 4016, the result of these two net losses being an apparent net gain for ,the Republicans. Undoubtedly the omnipotent fisheman did it. The Republican State organ is ostensibly pleased at the prospect of the “breaking down of the solid South. Yet this very desirable end might have been accomplished long ago had it not been •for the rabid utterances of such papers as the Journal. 'lt is a comment on Republicans tolerance that a whole section of the country was kept solid for thirty years by the partisan rancor of the “victors.”

WILL PAHS IT.' It appears that President Cleveland and the leaders of tariff reform in the Senate have not abated one jot or title of their determination to give the people their full meed of justice, if it shall be possible at this shoH session, and a de termined effort will be made to force the ring of sugar Senators, who blocked legislation before, to abate their opposition and give their party their honest votes according to the promises made to the people. The struggle will be sharp and ex citing as the Republicans, shortsighted in their belief that their reoent victory was an indorsement of their nefarious tariff ideas are making ready to throw all possible opposition in the way of the successful accomplishment of Democratic aims. During the last session they showed an unlimited ability to pour out their talk in weak, washy, everlasting floods. Senator Quay’s meandering speech and Senator Chandler’s two-day effort on the pathetic subject of potatoes are still fresh in the minds of the Democrats. They will endeavor to stem this tide of words to pur a dam across the stream and they may be forced to drastic measures to put an end to the disgraceful proceeding. They are determined to pass the bill. If the ring of so-called conservative Senators can be brought to a realization of their duty, the Republicans are likely to find themselves unable to prevent the granting of the desired relief. CHEAP FLOUR AND DEAR BREADThat purchasers would have to pay as much for bread with flour selling at wholesale at from $2.50 to $3.50 per barrell, as when it sold for twice as much, would have seemed incredible in the days when the higher prices of flour prevailed. People have lived, however, to see the cheapest flour ever known baked into thirteen-ounce loaves and re tailed for 5 cents a loaf, without any serious protest on the part of consumers. The old method of baking bread at home has gone out of fashion in many households, while in many others the facilities for baking are lacking. Owing to these two causes the bakers can have things pretty much their own way if they make common cause against the consumer, which they seem to have done in a large degree, as their ability to sell light-weight 5-cent loaves with flour beneath $3 per barrel testifies. If new * akers do not enter the field and put an end to the present bread monopoly and people refuse or are unable to return to the oldfashioned method of baking their own bread, we suppose the present order of things will continue.—N. Y. Woild. Senator Brice, of Ohio, has not helped Vice-President Stevens’s aspirations to be the Democratic nominee for .President in 1896 by appearing in public as his sponsor. Perhaps he has not hurt Stevenson either. He is a good man, and very popular in Indiana as well as in his own State. But it would become Senator Brice to be more modest. The Senator is not personally great or popular with Democrats of Ohio or any other State in this great Union. -J ' A nation of 65,000,000 of inteligent treemen, with $75,000,000 of surplus assets, compelled to borrow to meet ordinary expenditure! What will our humiliation come to an end?—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser (rep.) need never to have been begun if Mr. Harrison and bis treasury secretary, Mr. Foster, had not tried to manage the financial affairs of a great people and made a bungling tangle of tb6 entire matter. The election of a United States Senator from Ohio is about fourteen months away. The nomination of a Republican candidate for a President is -still further. Won’t the people get tired hearing about McKinley and Foraker in that time? Won’t they be asking if tbere are IXST “

WINTER WILL SOW BE HERE SO PREPARE AND BE READY And buy yourself oneQof those Beautiful Fur Capes and Jackets. THE LARGEST OPEN STOCK IN THE COUNTY. A n » interested k a , customer, while «&£ Iw • passing th r o u g h .jEwEi 5 the Fur and Cloak ’ Departments yesterday, clever 1 y . likened the handsonic assornment t Os furs and cloaks, “Nosik h qualities. . workmanship and 1,1 lu ' I,>llll ’' ni elsewhere,” The».JrJ| , assortments r e r brightened daily neJJz Wpw by the introduction Hd Wlr ’of new arrivals. W . The varieties are in J&Sr , continually chang- Wk , ing and none have become common. J , No Old Goods 0 A In our establishment. - ' All New Goods R At New Prices. Special Bargains I In Dress Goods | and Underwear ' * JESSE NIBLICK « SON.

Wheat Feeding to Fann Animals. In Kansas, under the conditions as to product and prices of wheat and corn existing in the years 1893, ’94 and ’95, wheat has become a very unusual and very important factor m the grain-feeding of all classes of farm stock. It is superior to corn, pound for pound, as a grain to produce a healthful, well balanced growth in young animals. Mixed with corn, oats or bran, it is much superior to either, alone for work hordes. Fed to cows, it ie an exceptional milk-producer, and for that purpose corn is scarcely to be compared with it. For swine of all ages, it is a healthful and agreeable food, giving generous / returns in both framework and flesh, bit ted whole, especially without slaking, is used at a disadvantage. Ground and made into slops, it is invaluable for suckling sows and for pigs both before and after weaningt For cattle, it has, at least as a part of . their grain ration, a high value, which is much enhanced m the line of needed variety by mixing with corn, and in a still greater de - gree by mixi tg judiciously with bran, oil cake or other albuminous foods tending to balance the too carbonaceous nature of the clear wheat. With corn and wheat approximating the same price per bushel,it is not •nprofitable or wicked to feed the wheat; yet if it can be ground, rolled, crushd< or in some way broken at a total cost not exceeding 5' to 7 cents a bushel, to teed it whole and dry is unwise. It can be ground at a cost-'of 5 cents per bushel; and on a majority of Kansas farms for very much less. If grinding is impracticable, soaking from 24 to 36 hours (the length of time defending somewhat upon . the weather and season) is, for var- ■ ions reasons deemed desirable, but ’ it is injudicious to any extent that ' its being moist facilitates swallowing without the mastication or the proper mixing, with saliva. Any 1 arrangement or system of feeding r by which the grain was delivered m I such away that the animal could t eat but slowly, wouldjlargely overr cyne this defect. It is a superior food for all fowls, and, as a promoter of the maximum J egg production, is unsurpassed by i any other grain.—Cincinnati Price f Current, Oct. .26, 1894. • 3 . Our Republican friends have - been doing some talking about the ? changes in the .National legislation. » they forget that it will be one year 3 from next December before they can speak their piece.

, BILLS PREPARATION. A oommitte is at work on two bills that will be among the first I presented when the Legislature I meets, remarks the Indianapolis News. One is to ent down the powers of the County Commission- I era, and in counties the size of Marion, to place some of the function of the board in control of the city. The plan is to enact a law I under which the Commissioners can not have the power to spend so much money without a check upon them, and the matter of bridges I will also receive some attention. The other bill is in relation to I the School Board. The board will I be under the jurisdiction of the I city, and the Mayor will be*re- 1 sponsible for its acts. Tbe School I Commissioners will not be elected, I but will be appointed by the Mayor. I The question of a salary for the I Justice of the Peace will be con- I sidered. This will, it is thought, I do away with the grabbing for fees I that has been going on for many I years. The office is a constitutional I one and cannot be abolished. I An effort will be made to abolish fl the office of Coroner, which is con- 1 sidered by many to be a useless and fl expensive office. This will require I a constitutional amendment, as the I office cannot, of course, be abolished I without the action of the people. I “As long as the greenbacks are I outstanding all attempts to replen- ■ ish the gold in the treasury by sell- ■ ing bonds is hke pouring water into ■ a rat hole.” So says the esteemed E organ of tariff panics. By the way, ■ the Journal has not approved orß disproved the Cooper bill for tax-B ing greenbacks. Let us have aB committal on that important propo-B sition. There will be time enough ■ to talk about redemption when theß question of taxating invisible prop-B erty is settled and has the indorse-B ment of the public.—lndianapolisß Sentinel. I In referring to the recent Demo® cratic defeat the venerable Allen G® Thurman says: 0 “In 1840 the Democrats wpr® whipped worse than at the presen® time, but this defeat was like ar® earthquake. Two years ago'wß harried everything, and som® thought we would do the same thi® year. But I became a little un® easy and did not advise my friend® to bet. But we are bound t® beat them, and why? Because thß Democratic party is the naturaßl party of tree institutions. I’ll bß| gone, perhaps, but a party found on the principles ot a free govern® ment will stand so long as that go®| ernment is maintained. You hav®| been in worse places than at thSI present time and come out all righ®| ana you will come out all righfl again.” r- - .r-rfgr- A IM